Stately home famous for Colin Firth’s Pride and Prejudice lake scene is evacuated as devastating flooding sweeps away huge swathes of the 600-year-old manor’s 17-acre gardens Lyme Park, near Stockport, in Cheshire, was evacuated on Wednesday afternoon after devastating rain Home doubled up as Mr Darcy’s home Pemberley in the BBC’s 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice Firth’s Mr Darcy […]

British woman, 58, dies after falling through snow bridge into a crevasse on a popular Swiss glacier as she trekked to the Strahlhorn Swiss police said the 58-year-old Alpinist died after falling into the Allalin Glacier The woman was connected to a second person by a rope at 4.30am yesterday They were heading to the 4190m Strahlhorn mountain when accident […]

Tory MP threatens to WIPE OUT Boris Johnson’s majority by defecting to Lib Dems in protest at hard Brexit stance The Tories lost the Brecon by-election last night cutting PM’s majority to just one Conservative MP Phillip Lee has threatened to defect to the Liberal Democrats  Move would reverse numbers in the Commons giving the Opposition more MPs  A Tory […]

CONCORD, N.H. — The driver involved in a crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire was under the influence of drugs and reached for a beverage just before the collision, according to a federal inspection report obtained Thursday. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said that a toxicology report showed Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was positive for an unspecified drug that […]

Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter has been identified as the 22-year-old woman who fatally overdosed at the family’s Cape Cod compound on Thursday, according to a report. Two family friends told The New York Times that the victim was Saoirse Kennedy Hill, who was staying at the sprawling Hyannis Port, Massachusetts home of her grandmother, 91-year-old Ethel Kennedy. By the time […]

Workers and military personnel have been desperately trying to collect rubbish overflowing in a river in Indonesia. Shocking images have emerged of the Bahagia river in Bekasi, West Java, which is full to the brim with plastic bottles, polystyrene takeaway containers and plastic bags. Not an inch of water can be seen in the polluted river Bahagia – which means […]

A gas line explosion shortly after midnight on Thursday in a residential community in rural Kentucky sent up a ball of flame that could be seen for miles, killing one person and setting several houses on fire, a local sheriff said. The explosion in Moreland, a community about 40 miles (65 km) south of Lexington, was on a natural gas […]

Fury as Labour Peer Andrew Adonis ‘mocks suicide’ in tweet about Brexit No Deal funding Prominent Remainer likened No Deal to a youngster threatening to slash wrists Lord Adonis was accused of belittling self-harm and demanded to delete tweet Last September Labour peer blasted Boris Johnson for using extreme language  Branded now-PM ‘outrageous’ for comparing Chequers deal to a suicide […]

Lyft’s San Francisco bike-share subsidiary Bay Wheels yanked its entire fleet of pedal-assisted electric bikes on Wednesday after multiple reports of bikes catching fire. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are temporarily making the ebike fleet unavailable to riders while we investigate and update our battery technology,” the company said in a statement. Twitter user @zrutta44 posted a photo […]

Tragic final moments of girls who ‘got in the way of their mother’s sex work’: Chilling CCTV shows killer model, 23, in garage as daughter lay dying in car and sisters innocently following her into flat… before they were murdered Louise Porton first suffocated Lexi Draper and then strangled Scarlett Vaughan Single mother earned cash hooking up with men she […]